xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
Complementing Buy Nothing Day is Make Something Day. A reminder we don’t have to accept the world set out for us, but create it. Stop simply consuming and make something. And the key within it is take action.
Books: a reminder to consume less and make for ourselves | rabble.ca (via domesticnoise)
I’m going to try for the European Buy Nothing day. I’ve already screwed this one up and it’s not 8:30 yet…
I’m going to try for the European Buy Nothing day. I’ve already screwed this one up and it’s not 8:30 yet…
Typical
- J says:
- have you watched the queen's speech yet?
- S says:
- no. i saw a lot of queens last week give speeches at the congreso here.
- J says:
- the gaze?
- S says:
- si
- which type are you talking about?
- J says:
- I was first talking about her Majesty
- S says:
- oh. ok then, no i haven't watched her speech.
- J says:
- http: //answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090914193143AAGxcL0
- S says:
- there's dengue here! i was bit at least seven times last night.
- J says:
- the gaze?
- S says:
- insects! buzzing in the air. at night when it's hot.
- J says:
- oh, them
- I think I want french fries
- S says:
- i'm thinking i should start dinner.
- J says:
- the cafeteria would make french fries for me, they won't deep-fry an egg though
- S says:
- bastards. they should deep-fry whatever the fuck you want.
- J says:
- Deep-fried eggs are just like poached eggs, but with 350ºF oil instead of simmering water.
- S says:
- i put eggs in everything. last night i had a salad and bam! there were hard boiled eggs in it.
- J says:
- I'd expect that from you
- S says:
- i bought a cabbage for dinner tonight. it's the size of my head.
- J says:
- are you going to eat the whole thing?
- S says:
- no. that would make my stomach hurt. ok, i'm going for dinner. later.
- J says:
- later dude, enjoy the cabbage
The Prize Doesn’t Always Go To The Most Deserving
Irena Sendler
1910-2008
A 98 year-old German woman named Irena Sendler recently died. During WWII, Irena worked in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist. Irena smuggled Jewish children out; infants in the bottom of the tool box she carried and older children in a burlap sack she carried in the back of her truck. She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers wanted nothing to do with the dog, and the barking covered the kids’ and infants’ noises. Irena managed to smuggle out and save 2500 children. She eventually was caught, and the Nazis broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar buried under a tree in her backyard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunited some of the families. Most had been killed. She helped those children get placement into foster family homes or adopted.
Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won - for a slide show on Global Warming.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/sendler.asp
The hotel staff did not help me in any shape or form and told me to watch where I was going and that it was my fault. How is it my fault there is poop on the floor in the first place?
Wonder® Woman - posing (via mleak)
Children wash clothes and bathe at a water pipeline surrounded by sewage in Mumbai, India on Wednesday, Nov. 18. (via The Frame: The World’s Children
)
I was interested in the question of whether my son, going through his first language acquisition process, would acquire it like any human language,
